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United States Patent | 6,260,192 |
Rosin ,   et al. | July 10, 2001 |
An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel. The server queries the client regarding its available data stream connections, including telephone modems, cable modems, and digital satellite broadcasting, in order to determine the most efficient delivery of different types of data through all of the available bandwidth connections. The efficient delivery of data allows the client to present text, graphics, video, audio and other multimedia information from a web page over the internet as a coordinated presentation.
Inventors: | Rosin; Robert (Franklin Lakes, NJ); Hsu; P. Robert (San Jose, CA); Sonoda; Yumie (Los Altos, CA); Niijima; Makoto (Saitama, JP); Nakano; Hiroaki (San Francisco, CA) |
Assignee: | Sony Corporation (JP); Sony Electronics () |
Appl. No.: | 867613 |
Filed: | June 2, 1997 |
Current U.S. Class: | 725/39; 725/109 |
Intern'l Class: | H04N 007/173 |
Field of Search: | 345/327 348/6,7,12,13,10,11,1 455/6.2,6.3,5.1,4.2,3.1,2 709/217,218,219 |
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